Front Coil Spring Upper Seat for BYD Qin PLUS DM-i, OE 12438292-00

Check it properly rather than trusting the model name. The listing runs against a broad set of BYD vehicles, and within one model name there can be variants that take a different upper seat. The fitment table on this page is the place to settle it: find your model, then match the build period and the variant to your registration document. After that, compare the number on the part you removed with 12438292-00 or with the reference HADF-2905521. If the table agrees but the numbers do not, send a photograph of the old part and its label through the quote route before ordering.

Either of the two we offer. The listing sits under OE number 12438292-00 and under the alternative reference HADF-2905521, and both describe this upper seat. On a moulded rubber part the reference is often faint and set into the surface, so clean it and read it in raking light rather than head on. Watch the last few digits in particular, because neighbouring parts in this family differ only at the tail. A number that matches neither should go to us through the quote route with your vehicle details, not into a guess.

This seat is safety critical, so our answer is to have a garage do it. It belongs to the front spring and top mount area of the suspension, which means the assembly has to come apart with the right equipment before the part is reached. We publish no fitting sequence and no torque values, and there is nothing on this page that should be read as a substitute for the vehicle maker's own data. Book it in, quote OE number 12438292-00, and ask the fitter to inspect the rest of the top mount while it is open.

The delivery time is 8 to 25 days, from order to door. Because the suspension has to be opened up to fit it, this is not a part to order on the morning of the booking. Get it on its way first and let the garage date follow the delivery. If you want an update part way through, quote OE number 12438292-00 rather than the model name.

Rubber, on a part supplied new. Storage wants to be dry and away from oils and fuels. We give no compound, hardness or ageing information for this seat, so a fitter needing that level of detail should work from the vehicle maker's own material rather than from here.

This mounts inside the vehicle, at the front and at the upper end of the spring, which on many cars means the top of the strut is reached from inside the body rather than from below. There is no left or right for it, so the same seat serves either front corner. Ask your garage to look at the access before the day of the work, because a top mount reached from inside can mean trim or scuttle panels coming out. Confirm your model on the fitment table on this page first.

Because nothing else has been matched to OE number 12438292-00. The page carries the Original/Genuine seat from BYD, which gives one specification and the price shown on this page. Small rubber suspension items are copied less often than the big wearing parts, so a single tier here is not unusual. If you want an alternative pursued for your own car, put the OE number from the old part into the quote route and ask. Anything that came back as a proper match would be listed on this page as a second tier for you to compare.